APRIL 2022 BREATHING ROOM
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: MIA GLANZ
April 23: ODYSSEY 8-10pm Burrard View Park
breathing room reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation, and community connection. We are delighted to announce our April 2022 breathing room artist in residence, Mia Glanz.
Odyssey: presented as part of the 2022 Capture Festival and the April 2022 breathing room residency
Saturday, April 23 at the Iris Film Collective Fieldhouse at Burrard View Park, 8–10pm
Society Visual Music continues to explore the social and cultural repercussions of the pandemic through video and sound. The project was formed by the limitations of the pandemic, particularly the need to communicate electronic music performance in video packages. As we begin to physically gather together again, everything is not the way it was. Among other schisms, we are divided between our digital and physical selves more than ever. In order to make this change visible, Society Visual Music’s Odyssey will be projected on a screen located outside at Iris Film Collective in Burrard View Park. The projection of a DJ set will stand-in for a physical DJ and set-up. Society Visual Music will film the audience and space during the casual screening event. The live footage will be combined in real time with the Odyssey projection using TouchDesigner, immediately turning the experience digital and 2-D, equalizing audience and performer on screen. We propose a fun, interactive and experimental film screening to be part of Capture Photography Festival.
Facilitated by Iris Film Collective and EPFC North, breathing room artists are provided with some filmmaking materials and equipment, technical and creative support, and access to work/exhibition space at Moberly and/or Burrard View Fieldhouse. The residency also includes optional opportunities for artists to engage with the local community via workshops, talks, screenings and other public activities. breathing room artists are invited to share their creative discoveries at a free public in-person and/or online event.
Mia Glanz is an artist living in Mexico City and Vancouver. Working with photography, video, text, ethnography, and new media, her work attends to material culture as an exploration of personhood and social conditions. Mia has a degree in anthropology and plant biology from the University of British Columbia. She has exhibited in Mexico and Canada. Group shows in Vancouver include the Richmond Art Gallery, Access Gallery, Ho Tam Gallery, and Hatch Art Gallery, and photography as performance with the Dance Centre BC. Currently she is making virtual installations with the new media collective Society Visual Music, and working on an image/text book project about the stories in the spaces of the Puerto Rico Apartments in Mexico City.
During my time at the breathing room residency I will be using Super 8 and 16mm film to collect moving samples of the "real" world. I will learn how to edit the film physically and will combine these tools with digital editing to create a fast paced and abstract narrative with a typically analog tactile aesthetic; a music video for a techno track from Mexican producer Eliobeth.
